A 2014 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that only 27 percent of graduates from four-year colleges were working in jobs connected to their college majors. North Carolina State University is trying to help students face the likelihood that their future jobs will not connect directly to their majors. North Carolina State University Dean Jeff Braden shares a laugh with students after a class. This fall, the university is offering two days of workshops to help 30 juniors and seniors “design their lives.” School officials were inspired by a popular class at the Design School at Stanford University in California. The Stanford class helps students prepare for the future. Among other things, the Stanford professors say they provide “ideas for what the world needs more of.” At North Carolina State, three college deans(院长) will teach the workshops. All offer expertise in different fields – Jeff Braden in humanities, Annette Ranft in business management, and Mark Hoverstein in design. As to advice to students about where the jobs will be, Braden suggests looking toward work that cannot be done by machines or computers. He also suggests jobs that deal with questions that are a “little fuzzy”. Finding solutions to problems is not always clear, and there is more than one possible answer. Ranft, the North Carolina State management dean, said students should also think beyond their first jobs after college. She hopes students will look toward “lifelong professional goals.” Unlike their grandparents, today’s college graduates are not likely to stay in a job for their entire lives, or even more than five years. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mediannumber of years that workers stay on a job was 4.2 years in January 2016. That was down from 4.6 years in 2014. “The days of someone working at the same job for his or her entire life are over,” Braden said.【小题1】Why does the North Carolina State University set up the workshops? A．Thirty students are worried about their future jobs. B．College students have trouble finding jobs nowadays. C．College students can’t get jobs related to their majors. D．Some college deans offer to teach the workshops. 【小题2】What do we know about the Stanford class according to the text? A．It provides ideas about business management. B．It is a popular class in North Carolina State University. C．It doesn’t help students make preparations for the future. D．It inspires the school officials of North Carolina State University. 【小题3】What does the underlined word “fuzzy” in Paragraph 4 mean? A．Confusing B．Reasonable C．Boring D．Unique. 【小题4】The college deans advise students to________. A．seek jobs done by robots and machines. B．consider career planning in the long run. C．stay on a particular job as long as possible. D．think twice about their first jobs after college.

  Chances are that today’s college graduates will get jobs not directly connected to their majors. A 2014 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that only 27 percent of graduates from four-year colleges were working in jobs connected to their college majors. North Carolina State University is trying to help students face the likelihood that their future jobs will not connect directly to their majors.

North Carolina State University Dean Jeff Braden shares a laugh with students after a class. This fall, the university is offering two days of workshops to help 30 juniors and seniors “design their lives.” School officials were inspired by a popular class at the Design School at Stanford University in California. The Stanford class helps students prepare for the future. Among other things, the Stanford professors say they provide “ideas for what the world needs more of.”

At North Carolina State, three college deans(院长) will teach the workshops. All offer expertise in different fields – Jeff Braden in humanities, Annette Ranft in business management, and Mark Hoverstein in design.

As to advice to students about where the jobs will be, Braden suggests looking toward work that cannot be done by machines or computers. He also suggests jobs that deal with questions that are a “little fuzzy”. Finding solutions to problems is not always clear, and there is more than one possible answer.

Ranft, the North Carolina State management dean, said students should also think beyond their first jobs after college. She hopes students will look toward “lifelong professional goals.” Unlike their grandparents, today’s college graduates are not likely to stay in a job for their entire lives, or even more than five years. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mediannumber of years that workers stay on a job was 4.2 years in January 2016. That was down from 4.6 years in 2014. “The days of someone working at the same job for his or her entire life are over,” Braden said.

【小题1】Why does the North Carolina State University set up the workshops?

A．Thirty students are worried about their future jobs.

B．College students have trouble finding jobs nowadays.

C．College students can’t get jobs related to their majors.

D．Some college deans offer to teach the workshops.

【小题2】What do we know about the Stanford class according to the text?

A．It provides ideas about business management.

B．It is a popular class in North Carolina State University.

C．It doesn’t help students make preparations for the future.

D．It inspires the school officials of North Carolina State University.

【小题3】What does the underlined word “fuzzy” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Confusing

B．Reasonable

C．Boring

D．Unique.

【小题4】The college deans advise students to________.

A．seek jobs done by robots and machines.

B．consider career planning in the long run.

C．stay on a particular job as long as possible.

D．think twice about their first jobs after college.